Future

List view

Video Capture in Arcade

enhancement

Status: Not planned (skipped).

#1349 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by Akascape was closed on Aug 7, 2026

Add screenshot 1342

Status: Closed (abandoned).

pythonarcade/arcadenumber 2039

#2039 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by sabadam32 was closed on Feb 24, 2025

Support multiple hit boxes per Sprite

collision

enhancement

Status: Not planned (skipped).

#1057 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by bunny-therapist was closed on Aug 7, 2026

Broke up create_text_sprite into 2 functions [WIP][HELP]

Status: Closed (abandoned).

pythonarcade/arcadenumber 1679

#1679 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by gran4 was closed on Feb 18, 2024

Encapsulate relative position logic in UITextInput.on_event

Status: Closed (abandoned).

pythonarcade/arcadenumber 2327

#2327 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by pushfoo was closed on Feb 15, 2025

Unroll & reduce dot access in rectangle drawing helpers

Status: Merged (completed).

pythonarcade/arcadenumber 2198

#2198 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by pushfoo was closed on Sep 29, 2024

Add simple tutorial on optimizing code with ctypes or numpy for beginners

Status: Closed (abandoned).

pythonarcade/arcadenumber 2370

#2370 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by eschan145 was closed on Nov 28, 2025

Add 3 SIL Open font license "default" fonts & import them on startup

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#1011 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by pushfoo was closed on Feb 28, 2025

Enhancement: Addition of more arguments in UIInputText

enhancement

guiRelated to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)Related to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)

Status: Closed (completed).

#1118 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by Ibrahim2750mi was closed on Mar 28, 2025

SpriteList: Allow draw() with specific sprite count and offset

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#1143 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Mar 5, 2023

Animated GIF image loading

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#834 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by CyberHawk09 was closed on Apr 3, 2022

Make pymunk an optional dependency

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#1058 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Feb 20, 2023

Making an advanced UIInputText

enhancement

guiRelated to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)Related to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)

Status: Closed (completed).

#1318 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by eschan145 was closed on Mar 28, 2025

High memory usage in arcade.draw_text

enhancement

wontfix

Status: Closed (completed).

#658 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by markjoshua12 was closed on Dec 14, 2020

Optimize Unbuffered Shapes

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#663 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Jun 17, 2022

Consider making a 2D camera

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#669 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Jul 31, 2021

Shadertoy like interface for making effects

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#670 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Aug 31, 2021

The performance of the ShapeElementList currently is great when drawing static geometry, but rebuilding it is very slow and it's not as flexible as sprites.

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#664 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Mar 19, 2022

Pyglet 2.1 issues

Status: Closed (completed).

#2278 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by einarf was closed on Feb 21, 2025

OpenGL: Better support for struct uniforms

Status: Closed (completed).

#938 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by DragonMoffon was closed on Sep 17, 2021

Need O(1) way to clear a sprite list

enhancement

fix waiting for release

Status: Closed (completed).

#911 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by pvcraven was closed on Jan 31, 2022

Provide menu bar widget set

enhancement

guiRelated to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)Related to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)

Status: Closed (completed).

#1081 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by eruvanos was closed on Aug 21, 2024

Save and Load Texture Atlas.

enhancement

Status: Closed (completed).

#1233 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by DragonMoffon was closed on Mar 15, 2025

Enhancement: Add Disabled and Error states for UI elements

guiRelated to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)Related to arcade GUI (sub module arcade.gui)

Status: Closed (completed).

#1255 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by pushfoo was closed on Mar 29, 2025

pyright strict mode raises diagnostics caused by arcade's code, not consumer code

typing

Status: Closed (completed).

#1394 In pythonarcade/arcade;

· by cspotcode was closed on Jul 12, 2024